Re: Single quotes in Info

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-01-24, at 00:53, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

>> I'm not sure about it, but it seems that after upgrading from 24.3 to
>> 25.0.50.1, the Info buffer is a bit uglified.  First, it uses some face
>> I don't like for variable and function names – but if this annoys me too
>> much, I can change it easily.  Worse, instead of e.g. `t' it now says
>> ‘t’, for instance (i.e., it uses Unicode single quotation marks).
>> 
>> This is extremely annoying, since it makes incremental searching for
>> single-quoted strings much harder.
>> 
>> I apropos'ed the "Info-" variables and grepped the list for "quot",
>> "unicode" and "single", all to no avail, and ran out of ideas.  Is this
>> behavior customizable?  How to get back to ASCII quotes?
>
> Oh boy, you'll have fun reading about this in the bug threads:
>
> #16292 - http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16292
>          info docs now contain single straight quotes instead of `'
>
> #13131 - http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13131
>          Allow curly quotes to be found by searching for straight quotes?
>
> #16439 - http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16439
>          Highlighting of strings within Info buffers
>
> #13228 - http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13228
>          Request for highlighting back-quote/quote pair notation
>
> Enjoy!

Thanks, I'll look at these.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University